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Idris began her adventuring career when she met her traveling companion, Walter "Cap" Wanderwell, in 1922. They married in 1925 and had two children. As they continued to travel the world, Aloha Wanderwell performed on stage, giving travel lectures against the backdrop of a silent movie, Car and Camera Around the World.
The book was also a "major influence on two canonical works of English literature, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe". [2] Charles Darwin quotes from Dampier's New Voyage account of the tame behaviour of the "turtle-dove" – the Galápagos dove – that they both encountered on the Galápagos Islands.
The Rihla, formal title A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling, is the travelogue written by Ibn Battuta, documenting his lifetime of travel and exploration, which according to his description covered about 73,000 miles (117,000 km).
Here are some top countries for solo travel, plus tips to plan and execute a successful trip of self-discovery. Read more on solo travel : Eight best solo holiday destinations in the UK for a ...
Around the World by Steam, via Pacific Railway, was published in 1871 by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and an Around the World in A Hundred and Twenty Days by Edmond Planchut. In early 1870, the Erie Railway Company published a statement of routes, times, and distances detailing a trip around the globe of 38,204 km (23,739 mi) in 77 days ...
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. [1] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism.
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary comedy television series broadcast on Sky One, as well as a series of companion books published by Canongate Books, [1] created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. [2]
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck.It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle Charley.